Partners with provincial and territorial governments, community agencies and organizations to increase access to justice for victims and survivors of crime and give them a more effective voice in the criminal justice system 

The federal initiative was established in 2000 as part of the federal government’s response to 1998 report of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights: Victims’ Rights – A Voice Not A Veto report and is grounded in the Canadian Statement of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime  (2003) and the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights (2015).